NYU Urban Design and Architecture Studies and the Urban Design and Architecture Society announce
Design Software Training Sessions
With URDS alum and current M.Arch candidate Robin Smith
Are you interested in developing your architectural design skills? Join us for four remote training sessions taught by NYU alum, Robin Smith. These are non-credit, free enrichment lessons designed to help students learn and practice design skills. Before attending, please download software or student trials from the links below. We will announce further details in early January.
January 9 Rhino, 6:30 – 8 pm ET
January 10 Revit, 6:30 – 8 pm ET
January 11 Basic rendering (Enscape or Vray), 6:30 – 8 pm ET
January 12 Adobe Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), 6:30 – 8 pm ET
The undergraduate Humanities Fellowship Program is a mentoring program for NYU Juniors and Seniors working in the humanities. The selected Humanities Fellows explore academic topics and other interests (arts, politics, work) in conversation with students from other disciplines. Humanities Fellows meet bi-weekly during the spring semester to engage in structured discussion on issues chosen by the students, and on topical debates. Students participate in organized field trips and meetings with working professionals in the humanities such as curators, activists and artists and other group activities based on their interests. The program is led by University Professor Ulrich Baer, Faculty Director of the Center for the Humanities.
Join us as scholars, scientists, and artists explore ecological and cultural phenomena through the lens of the two current
exhibitions A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur and Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India.
Monsoon: Histories and Futures
Friday, December 9, 1–3 p.m. EST
Hybrid event: In-person attendees register on Eventbrite here. Virtual attendees register on Zoom here. Speakers include: Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya, Dr. Dipti Khera, and Dr. Sonali Shukla McDermid
Yamuna/Anacostia: Rivers and Environmental Justice
Saturday, December 10, 1–3 p.m. EST
Hybrid event: In-person attendees register on Eventbrite here. Virtual attendees register on Zoom here. Speakers include: Ravi Agarwal, Katrina Lashley, Dr. Anne Rademacher, and Dr. Bishnupriya Ghosh
Dipti Khera’s co-curated exhibition A Splendid Land opened to the public at the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C. on November 19.
Around 1700, artists in Udaipur (a court in northwest India) began creating immersive paintings that express the moods (bhava) of the city’s palaces, lakes, and mountains. These large works and their emphasis on lived experience constituted a new direction in Indian painting.
With dazzling paintings on paper and cloth—many on public view for the first time—the exhibition reveals the environmental, political, and emotional contexts in which the new genre emerged. A Splendid Land explores the unique visual strategies that artists developed to communicate emotions, depict places, and celebrate water resources.
The exhibition is organized as a journey that begins at Udaipur’s center and continues outward: first its lakes and lake palaces, then to the city, onward to the surrounding countryside, and finally to the cosmos. A side trip immerses visitors in the emotions surrounding the monsoon, the annual rains so crucial to Mewar’s prosperity. Throughout, a soundscape by the renowned filmmaker Amit Dutta invites audiences to fully sense—and not just see—the moods of these extraordinary places and paintings.
A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur is part of the 2023 programming marking the 100th anniversary of the National Museum of Asian Art’s founding. Learn more about our centennial celebrations. #TheNext100.
A Splendid Land includes Curatorial Conversations, based on the work Institute of Fine Arts-NYU graduate students’ completed in the Spring 2023 curatorial seminar, Emotions, Ecologies, Exhibitions. See: https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/curatorial-conversations/
Hope you can travel and see the exhibition in DC sometime this year (open in DC till May 14, 2023, and the exhibition travels to the Cleveland Museum of Art in Summer 2023).
A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur, November 19, 2022–May 14, 2023, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Presented in collaboration with The City Palace Museum in Udaipur administered by The Maharana of MewarCharitable Foundation. Photo: Colleen Dugan
Summer 2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Internship Program Join a community of interns to gain professional skills and learn about museum practice! We are currently accepting applications for summer and long-term internships at The Met in a wide range of department areas.
Application deadline: January 18, 2023, 5 PM ET
Learn more and apply for summer internships → Learn more and apply for long-term internships → NEW! Mary Jaharis Internship in Medieval ArtWe’re excited to announce a special ten-week internship placement in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters for someone with an interest in Byzantine Art and the histories of medieval communities in northern and eastern Africa. This full-time summer internship (with the possibility of a part-time extension in the fall) is part of the Museum Seminar (MuSe) Internship Program. The intern gains curatorial skills by working closely with staff on organizing an exhibition about the connection between Africa and the Byzantine World. They will assist with the completion of the exhibition catalogue, help develop didactic materials for the installation, and brainstorm community-centered interpretive strategies. Additionally, the intern will have the opportunity to contribute to the department’s social media platforms. This internship is ideal for someone with an interest in Byzantine art and/or the arts of north and eastern Africa. Also, it will be important for the intern to have a desire to contribute to efforts to diversify the narratives explored in museum collections and their display. Applicants should select the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters on the application. Online Internship Information SessionsThursday, December 8, 5:00–5:45 PM Friday, December 9, 12:15–1:00 PM Wednesday, December 14, 10:00–10:45 AM
Are you curious about what interns do at The Met? Wondering what to include in your application? Join a virtual information session before the summer application closes on January 18, 2023.
Please join us in welcoming Clara Jeanne Reed to the front desk in the DAH. Clara officially became our new Administrative Aide on November 21, 2022 but has been a member of our department, in various capacities, for awhile.
Clara Jeanne has been at NYU for the past 6 years, first as an undergraduate student, then a graduate student, and now a staff member. Art is her entire life, whether that be studying it or making it, she is thrilled to be able to work in an environment where she is surrounded by it. She is finishing up her MA at the Institute of Fine Arts. In her scholarly pursuits she has focused on conceptual art pertaining to the female experience and narrative, but she also has a love for Hellenic studies and spent the last summer working on an archaeological dig in Samothrace, Greece. She is also a working artist herself, and uses the medium of photography to explore the gendered history of power and desire. She holds a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts and a BA from the DAH.
She is originally from a small town in Idaho, but has lived in NYC for six years now. In her free time you will most likely find Clara on the street running or on the stage performing. She has run multiple marathons and performed in three off-broadway shows. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her roommates and two crazy cats.
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